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Evidence (8807 claims)

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Claims by outcome category

Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 870 233 116 1066 2363
Governance & Regulation 976 451 218 133 1809
Organizational Efficiency 949 224 144 88 1416
Technology Adoption Rate 764 287 141 122 1325
Research Productivity 501 152 74 362 1101
Output Quality 542 216 69 69 896
Decision Quality 387 198 94 54 740
Firm Productivity 513 67 101 27 714
AI Safety & Ethics 249 303 73 36 667
Market Structure 190 192 134 27 548
Task Allocation 243 77 91 36 452
Innovation Output 291 33 55 20 401
Skill Acquisition 206 72 65 21 364
Employment Level 133 63 115 22 335
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 153 79 52 32 323
Task Completion Time 206 37 12 15 272
Firm Revenue 179 52 29 5 266
Consumer Welfare 130 76 47 13 266
Inequality Measures 48 137 51 6 242
Worker Satisfaction 101 81 25 13 220
Error Rate 84 110 11 5 210
Wages & Compensation 98 47 30 10 185
Regulatory Compliance 88 73 17 7 185
Automation Exposure 66 64 33 16 182
Team Performance 105 29 30 11 176
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 114 21 14 8 158
Job Displacement 12 90 24 1 127
Hiring & Recruitment 57 9 9 5 80
Skill Obsolescence 6 56 9 1 72
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 21 17 1 57
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
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Current agents are not yet able to reliably produce professional-quality spreadsheets at the level of complexity real-world workflows demand.
Conclusion/interpretation based on the benchmark results and qualitative review reported in the paper (supporting quantitative details not shown in the excerpt).
high negative WorkstreamBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on End-to-End Spreads... reliability of producing professional-quality spreadsheets for real-world comple...
Even the strongest agents frequently fall short of professional finance standards and degrade sharply as the difficulty increases beyond a few chained calculations.
Empirical observation from the paper's benchmark showing performance declines with task difficulty (no numeric breakdown or sample sizes provided in excerpt).
high negative WorkstreamBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on End-to-End Spreads... performance relative to professional standards as task complexity increases
Existing spreadsheet benchmarks do not measure this advanced capability, focusing instead on question-answering or single-formula edits.
Paper's review/assessment of prior benchmarks (stated in introduction); no comprehensive benchmark list or counts provided in excerpt.
high negative WorkstreamBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on End-to-End Spreads... coverage of benchmark tasks (end-to-end spreadsheet construction vs QA/single-fo...
Seventy-four percent of task misalignments could be attributed to developers who tended to overfocus on efficiency and speed, especially for systems performing tasks in people-facing occupations such as those in the human resources sector.
Result from comparing traits causing incidents to developers' stated preferences (sample of 197 developers) and computing the proportion of misalignments where developer-desired traits matched the traits causing incidents; noted sectoral concentration in people-facing occupations (e.g., HR).
high negative The Quiet Path from Seemingly Minor Design Errors to Workpla... proportion of task misalignments attributable to developer-design choices (overe...
In most cases, workers wanted systems that are precise, insightful, or personal, but instead received systems that are basic, simple, or general.
Qualitative/quantitative comparison of preferred traits (from 202 workers) versus traits observed in AI systems in incident reports (LLM-coded); reported dominant preference traits versus dominant delivered traits.
high negative The Quiet Path from Seemingly Minor Design Errors to Workpla... mismatch between worker-preferred AI traits and deployed AI traits (trait-level ...
As many as 83% of workplace incidents stem from worker-AI misalignments.
Result from comparing LLM-extracted traits of AI systems (from 1,524 incident reports) to the traits preferred by workers (sample of 202); counted incidents where traits did not match worker preferences and reported proportion.
high negative The Quiet Path from Seemingly Minor Design Errors to Workpla... proportion of workplace AI incidents attributable to worker-AI trait misalignmen...
Commercial demand drivers systematically distort finished-goods inventory targets and require integration with sales-and-operations planning for accurate calibration.
Narrative synthesis of studies addressing demand-driver effects on finished-goods targets and recommendations for S&OP integration.
high negative Equitable railway corridor investment under demand uncertain... accuracy/calibration of finished-goods inventory targets
4.7% of modified files introduce new Bandit findings (security issues).
Static security analysis using Bandit run before and after each refactoring change on the AIDev Python PRs; reported proportion of modified files that gained new Bandit findings.
high negative Quality and Security Signals in AI-Generated Python Refactor... presence of new Bandit security findings in modified files
24.17% of modified files introduce new Pylint issues, predominantly convention-level violations such as long lines.
Domain-independent static analysis using Pylint applied before and after refactoring commits in the AIDev Python PRs; proportion of modified files with new Pylint findings reported.
high negative Quality and Security Signals in AI-Generated Python Refactor... number/proportion of modified files with new Pylint issues (lint violations, mai...
However, models remain limited in long-horizon reliability and domain-specific planning.
Evaluation results and analysis in paper highlighting failures in maintaining reliability over long-horizon tasks and in planning for domain-specific workflows.
high negative CutVerse: A Compositional GUI Agents Benchmark for Media Pos... long-horizon reliability and domain-specific planning ability
Extensive evaluations reveal that existing agents achieve only 36.0% task success on realistic media editing tasks.
Empirical evaluation reported in paper measuring task success rates of existing GUI agents on the Cutverse benchmark (benchmark size: 186 tasks across 7 apps implied).
There is a "Sim-to-Real" gap: synthetic tests maintain constant memory usage but realistic workflows exhibit linear memory growth of about 3 tokens per message, with consolidation quality emerging as the primary scalability bottleneck.
Empirical comparison between synthetic tests and realistic workflows over the reported message corpus (15,000 messages); reported growth rate (~3 tokens/message) and qualitative identification of consolidation quality as bottleneck.
high negative Episodic-Semantic Memory Architecture for Long-Horizon Scien... memory growth rate (tokens per message); identification of consolidation quality...
Full-context models fail at 10,000 messages due to context overflow.
Empirical comparison reported in the paper (within the large-scale evaluation), statement that full-context models fail at ~10,000 messages.
high negative Episodic-Semantic Memory Architecture for Long-Horizon Scien... failure (ability to answer/maintain accuracy) at ~10,000 messages
Monolithic approaches suffer from quadratic cost scaling and cognitive degradation when used for long scientific workflows.
Author statement contrasting monolithic approaches with the proposed architecture; conceptual/architectural claim rather than a single quantified experiment.
high negative Episodic-Semantic Memory Architecture for Long-Horizon Scien... computational cost scaling and cognitive degradation of monolithic LLM approache...
Context window saturation is a critical bottleneck as LLMs evolve into persistent scientific collaborators, because iterative data analysis and hypothesis refinement rapidly saturate even extended contexts with dense technical content.
Author claim based on observed behavior of scientific workflows; contextual motivation in paper (no specific experiment cited for this general statement).
high negative Episodic-Semantic Memory Architecture for Long-Horizon Scien... context window saturation in scientific workflows
In those same benchmarks, 16 of 84 tasks suffered negative deltas when Skills are introduced.
Reference to the same prior benchmark aggregation that reported task-level deltas (count of tasks with negative deltas = 16 out of 84).
high negative When Skills Don't Help: A Negative Result on Procedural Know... task-level performance delta when Skills are introduced (negative change in pass...
Underspecified prompts can lead to low-quality answers and additional interaction.
Motivating claim in the paper; presented as the problem the study addresses (no sample size or statistical test reported in the abstract).
high negative Less Back-and-Forth: A Comparative Study of Structured Promp... output_quality / user_interaction
Recent generative models show promise, yet they lack explicit mechanisms to balance exploration and safety, relying solely on action perturbations or trajectory guidance without a safety fallback, resulting in inefficient exploration and elevated financial risk for advertising platforms.
Argument in the paper contrasting generative-model-based approaches with the authors' proposed solution (conceptual claim; no quantitative backing given in the excerpt).
high negative Generative Auto-Bidding with Unified Modeling and Exploratio... exploration efficiency and financial risk in generative-model-based auto-bidding
Reinforcement Learning approaches modeled bidding as a Markov Decision Process but struggled with long-term dependencies.
Statement in the paper summarizing limitations of prior RL-based bidding work (qualitative claim; no experimental details or sample size provided in the excerpt).
high negative Generative Auto-Bidding with Unified Modeling and Exploratio... ability of RL approaches to handle long-term dependencies
Early rule-based methods lacked adaptability.
Literature/contextual statement in the paper's introduction summarizing prior approaches to automated bidding (no empirical data or sample size reported).
high negative Generative Auto-Bidding with Unified Modeling and Exploratio... adaptability of early rule-based bidding methods
Twin agents dissolve that boundary, raising a class of trust calibration challenge these frameworks were not designed to handle.
Argument and design observations from the authors' ongoing project presented in the paper; conceptual claim explaining why existing frameworks may be insufficient for twin agents.
high negative From Role to Person: Trust Calibration Challenges in Twin Ag... framework_applicability_for_trust_calibration
When a human colleague doubts a twin agent's output, they face three failure modes (a schema gap, an epistemic gap, and a model artifact) with no reliable attribution path between them.
Conceptual taxonomy derived from the authors' early design observations; presented as an identified set of failure modes in the paper (qualitative, no numeric sample reported in abstract).
Drawing on early design work in an ongoing project, we identify a trust calibration problem specific to this approach.
Based on the authors' early design work (qualitative/design research) described in the paper; no sample size or quantitative metrics reported in the abstract.
Frontier agents struggle with end-to-end completion despite partial progress.
Evaluation experiments reported in the paper showing frontier (state-of-the-art) agents achieving partial progress but failing to reliably complete end-to-end tasks in the OpenComputer benchmark.
high negative OpenComputer: Verifiable Software Worlds for Computer-Use Ag... end-to-end task completion / success rate
Major open challenges for responsible adoption include reliability, bias, privacy, automation bias, transparency, and evaluation.
Authors' identification of risks and open research challenges based on their review/analysis (conceptual synthesis).
high negative Rethinking Code Review in the Age of AI: A Vision for Agenti... list of key risks and challenges for AI adoption in code review
Current AI support for code review remains fragmented, with tools focusing on isolated tasks such as reviewer recommendation, PR description generation, or comment suggestion rather than the end-to-end PR review workflow.
Authors' survey/overview of existing AI tooling for code review described in the paper (conceptual / review-based evidence). No quantitative counts provided in the abstract.
high negative Rethinking Code Review in the Age of AI: A Vision for Agenti... completeness / fragmentation of AI tool coverage across PR review tasks
AI coding assistants expand the volume of code requiring review, turning code review into a growing bottleneck.
Authors' analytical claim linking increased code production from AI assistants to increased review workload; presented as an observed/trend claim in the paper rather than supported by a quantified study in the abstract.
high negative Rethinking Code Review in the Age of AI: A Vision for Agenti... volume of code requiring review / code review bottleneck
Code review has evolved for decades, from informal peer checking to today's pull request (PR) workflows, yet it remains a largely manual, uneven, and cognitively demanding process.
Authors' literature review and historical synthesis of code review practices presented in the paper (conceptual / review-based evidence). No empirical sample or experiment reported in the abstract.
high negative Rethinking Code Review in the Age of AI: A Vision for Agenti... manualness and cognitive demand of code review process
Challenges including algorithmic bias, data privacy concerns, high costs, and skill gaps persist across contexts.
Cross-study synthesis of barriers and challenges reported in the 21 included studies spanning multiple contexts.
high negative Application of Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Man... prevalence of adoption barriers (bias, privacy, cost, skills)
SMEs face unique resource constraints yet lag in AI-HRM adoption.
Synthesis conclusion from the systematic review of 21 included studies (published 2019–2026) comparing adoption patterns and barriers for SMEs.
high negative Application of Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Man... AI-HRM adoption (lag) and resource constraints
Greater automation can obscure rather than eliminate failure modes.
Analytical claim in paper arguing that increased automation hides failures; presented as an interpretive finding rather than a quantified experimental result in the excerpt.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide visibility or obscuration of failure modes under automation
End-to-end autonomous systems have not yet consistently reached major-venue acceptance standards.
Paper's statement based on review of acceptance/peer-review outcomes and standards as of April 2026; no numeric acceptance-rate data presented in the excerpt.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide consistency of meeting major-venue acceptance standards
Research code lags far behind pattern-matching benchmarks.
Paper's evaluative claim from its experiments/coding analysis indicating code produced for research tasks is weaker than benchmark performance on pattern-matching tasks; excerpt contains no numerical comparison.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide quality/performance of research code relative to pattern-matching benchmarks
Generated ideas often degrade after implementation.
Paper statement about the gap between idea generation and implemented results reported in the Creation-phase analysis; no quantified follow-up study reported in the excerpt.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide quality change of generated ideas after implementation
AI remains fragile for genuinely novel ideas, research-level experiments, and scientific judgment.
Summary claim from the paper's end-to-end lifecycle analysis indicating limitations on novelty and experimental rigor; no numeric performance metrics provided in excerpt.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide robustness on novel ideas, research-level experiments, and scientific judgment
Frontier LLMs fail to judge novelty reliably.
Paper's claim from its Validation-phase analysis that models do not reliably assess novelty; excerpt contains no underlying experimental sample or validation metrics.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide reliability of novelty judgments
Frontier LLMs miss hidden errors.
Qualitative statement from paper indicating models fail to detect some latent or subtle errors in research artifacts; no numeric evaluation provided in excerpt.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide ability to detect hidden errors
Under scientific pressure, even frontier LLMs still fabricate results.
Reported observation in paper about model behavior under scientific-use conditions; no specific quantitative experiments or sample sizes given in the excerpt.
high negative AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide incidence of fabricated results by LLMs
Diagnostics also reveal a small tail of extreme errors for the Random Forest model.
Model diagnostic analyses reported in the paper indicating error distribution and presence of extreme prediction errors (tail).
high negative Determinants of Successful IoT and AI Initiatives in the SMA... distribution of prediction errors (presence of extreme errors)
Unrestricted frontier-scale checkpoint synthesis remains open (i.e., not yet solved).
Authors' assessment in the abstract noting current limits; asserts that unrestricted synthesis at frontier/model-scale has not been achieved.
high negative Position: Weight Space Should Be a First-Class Generative AI... feasibility/status of unrestricted frontier-scale checkpoint synthesis
Real-world trajectory data can provide highly accurate insights but collecting it is costly and often infeasible for many retailers.
Author claim about practical constraints of data collection for retailers; argued contextually in the paper rather than presented as a quantified empirical finding in the excerpt.
high negative Modelling Customer Trajectories with Reinforcement Learning ... feasibility/cost of collecting real-world trajectory data
Actual customer trajectories deviate by an average of 28% from shortest paths.
Empirical measurement reported in the paper comparing real-world trajectory data to shortest-path (TSP-like) routes; exact sample size not stated in the provided text.
high negative Modelling Customer Trajectories with Reinforcement Learning ... deviation from shortest paths (trajectory difference)
In the context of search retrieval, current cold-start models suffer from the misalignment between training objectives and online business metrics, and they lack effective mechanisms to measure an item's growth potential.
Claim made in paper as motivation/background; no empirical details provided in the excerpt.
high negative Towards Sustainable Growth: A Multi-Value-Aware Retrieval Fr... alignment between model training objectives and online business metrics / abilit...
Existing systems tend to prioritize presenting users with already popular items, a phenomenon often referred to as the "Matthew effect".
Statement/observation in the paper; presented as background/motivation (no empirical evidence or sample size reported in the excerpt).
high negative Towards Sustainable Growth: A Multi-Value-Aware Retrieval Fr... presentation/exposure bias toward popular items
AI agents deployed into SRE workflows currently derive their understanding of environment state from raw observability telemetry at query time, paying a semantic-interpretation tax in tokens, latency, and inferential reliability.
Author statement / problem framing in the paper (no quantitative experiment reported for this general claim).
high negative Causely: A Causal Intelligence Layer for Enterprise AI A Ben... semantic-interpretation costs (tokens, latency, inferential reliability)
Standard health system digital transformation policy, which typically addresses only the threshold failure through individual incentives, is predicted to systematically produce the partial adoption trap.
Model prediction contrasting full policy architecture vs. conventional policies that focus solely on individual incentives; analytical conclusion that such limited policies leave other failure modes unaddressed and therefore lead to stable partial adoption. Theoretical model; no empirical sample.
high negative The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... policy-induced equilibrium (partial adoption trap likelihood) under conventional...
The barrier-lowering benefit of failed attempts is offset when trust erosion is rapid.
Model analysis combining cost-ratchet dynamics and trust erosion parameters; results showing interaction where fast trust erosion negates barrier reductions. Theoretical simulations/derivations; no empirical sample.
high negative The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... net effect on adoption barriers given interplay of cost ratchet and trust erosio...
These failure modes are most severe precisely for the technologies with the greatest systemic value: the Value-Adoption Paradox.
Analytical result from the model showing failure-mode severity as a function of systemic value; theoretical identification of a paradox where higher systemic-value technologies face stronger coordination/trust/cultural barriers. Theoretical derivation; no empirical sample.
high negative The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... relationship between systemic value of technology and severity of adoption failu...
The basin of attraction of the partial adoption trap is enlarged by a cultural failure arising from negative coordination norms among doctors.
Model analysis including cultural coordination norms; theoretical demonstration that negative norms exacerbate partial adoption equilibria. Theoretical model; no empirical sample.
high negative The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... size of basin of attraction for partial adoption (effect of cultural/coordinatio...
The basin of attraction of the partial adoption trap is enlarged by a trust failure arising from the organisation's inability to credibly commit to sharing productivity gains.
Model extension incorporating organisational commitment/transfer of gains; analytical results showing trust/commitment constraints increase stability of partial adoption. Theoretical model; no empirical sample.
high negative The partial adoption trap: Coordination failure, trust, and ... size of basin of attraction for partial adoption (effect of trust/commitment con...